Barbara (Lenkowska) Czartoszewska - First moments in exile
Helena (Mickiewicz) Giebień - Surviving
Helena (Mickiewicz) Giebień - Women’s brigade
Kazimierz Szukiel - Particular life of Soviet prisoner
Irena (Adamowicz vel Mieszkowicz) Gan - Relations with NKVD
Irena (Adamowicz vel Mieszkowicz) Gan - Prisoners’ in move
Jan Pacyna - Alcohol in Gulag
Maria Nowotarska Kołodzińska - Grandmother dies in Russia
Maria describes how devoted she was to her grandmother, and how she was present when her grandmother died.
Zofia (Dudek) Kogut - Bedbugs and work in Siberia
Describing the various measures they took to get rid of the bedbugs. Also describing the work in the forest, including the branches that the school children would gather and burn …
Feliks (junior) Scazighino - Hard life in exile
Describing how he had to work in the fields at age 6 1/2 !!
Feliks (junior) Scazighino - What helped them survive
Describing how their mother would sell valuables that she had brought from Poland, and how this helped them survive and leave the USSR.
Teresa (Niedzielska) Sokołowska - Conditions of life of the deportees in the Archangielsk region
Romuald Mańkowski - Conditions in gulag
Describing the living conditions in the Gulag, and how they got worse after the Germans attacked the Russians.
Jan/John Migut - Work in the forest
Jan describes the work that his father and sister had to do, as well as the food rations they were given.
Jan/John Migut - Forest provides fruit and sap
Jan tells how they would gather berries, mushrooms and tree sap in the forest, to help them survive.
Jan/John Migut - Corpses in winter
Jan describes how the bodies of those who died during winter months would be piled outside, waiting for burial in the spring. Not knowing any better, the children would play …
Edward Bobel - Deportation and first days on exile
Edward Bobel - Work and life in exile
Helena (Lenkiewicz) Szołomicka - Work in kolhoz
Helena (Lenkiewicz) Szołomicka - Exchange trade in exile
Helena (Lenkiewicz) Szołomicka - Chlidren’s drama in exile
Maria (Lipska) Taraszczuk - Barracks
Eugenia (Piotuch) Smolnicki - Mother sold things at market
Describing how her mother would sneak out of the camp to go to the local village and sell things at market, both for herself and for others in the camp.
Eugenia (Piotuch) Smolnicki - Children lost in the forest
Eugenia describes how she and a friend went to pick mushrooms in the forest and got lost. Luckily they managed to find their way back to the camp.
Eugenia (Piotuch) Smolnicki - Kids refused to sing on Good Friday
Describing how the Russian teacher could not get the children to sing on Good Friday. The children knew instinctively that this was not done.